Change box



H. FORSYTH Sept. 29, 1942.

CHANGE Box Original Filed Oct. 11, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet l Patented Sept. 29, 1942 CHANGE BOX Harry Forsyth, Prosscr, Wash.

Substituted for abandoned application Serial No. 360,827, October 11, 1940. This application August 30, 1941, Serial No. 409,102

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for holding coins and paper money in a convenient manner to facilitate the making of change in business houses, banks and the like, the same being a substitute application for application Serial No. 360,827, filed October 11, 1940, and allowed December 18, 1940, and for which the Government final fee was not paid within the time prescribed by law; and the invention together with its objects and advantage will be best understood from a study of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings where- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the change box in open condition and illustrating the application of the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional View through the change box with the box in closed condition.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a follower with a spring associated therewith shown fragmentarily.

Referring more in detail to the drawings it willbe seen that in the preferred embodiment thereof, the change box indicated generally by the reference numeral 5 comprises a pair of complemental sections 6 and 1, respectively, that are of suitable depth and dimensions and hingedly connected together as at 8.

The sections 6 and 1, respectively, function as a compartment 9 for paper money, checks, and other forms of negotiable instruments, and a coin compartment I0, respectively.

Suitably anchored within the compartment 9 are spring-retaining elements I I for retaining paper money, checks, and other forms of negotiable instruments in stacked condition within said compartment 9.

The compartment is divided by a plurality of partitions I2 into coin channels l3; there being, in the present instance, six coin channels so as to accommodate coins from one cent to silver dollars, inclusive. The channels I3 are substantially semi-cylindrical in cross section and each is of a diameter to accommodate therein,

with suitable snugness, a coin of a particular diameter.

Also each of the channels I3 is provided with a false bottom l4 having a longitudinal guide slot formed therein.

Working in each guide channel I3 is a follower l6 that is substantially of disk form and is provided with a guide member H.

In the present instance the member I! is in the form of a wire bent into a substantial U welded or otherwise secured to one face of the follower I 6 and having the legs thereof at the free ends directed laterally as at Ila to engage the underside of the false bottom I4 with the lower portion of the guide I! working in the slot l5. Thus is the follower l6 constrained to move longitudinally of the channel in which it has a working fit.

Also each follower I6 is urged toward one end of the associated channel I3 through the medium of a coil spring l8 that at one end is anchored to the follower l6 and at a relatively opposite end impinges against a wall of the member 1.

Thus through the medium of the followers IS the coins IS in the respective channels are urged toward one end of said channels so as to be readily accessible and easily removed.

Also to facilitate finger-engagement with a selected coin, the wall 20 of the box section 1, in alignment with each channel I3, is provided with an arcuate notch 2| as shown.

Also in accordance with the present invention there is provided for the section 1 of the box an internal lid 22 that is flanged along three sides thereof, as shown, and has one flanged side or edge thereof hingedly connected with the sections 6 and I through the medium of the aforementioned hinges 8.

The closure or lid 22 also functions as a closure or lid for the compartment 9, in addition to functioning as a partition between the compartments 9 and I0 when the box is in the fully closed condition suggested in Figure 2.

The compartment 9 is also provided with an internal flange 23 which, as shown in Figure 2, and when the box 5 is in fully closed position, overlaps the unflanged edge of the partition or closure .22 for holding the latter down and in the position shown in said Figure 2.

Also a suitable key-control lock indicated generally by the reference numeral 24 is provided for securing the closed box against unauthorized opening thereof.

It is believed that the simplicity of the device, as well as its many advantages, will be clear without a further detailed description thereof.

It is also to be understood that while I have herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is in no wise intended to restrict the invention to the precise details of construction, combination and arrangement as herein illustrated, other than as may be required by the prior art and scope of the claim hereunto appended.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

In a change box, a flanged section having a plurality of coin accommodating channels therein with notches in the front flange, one for each channel, a second flanged section, means for hinging the rear flanges of the two sections together, a flanged partition having its rear flange 10 

